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US
/ˈænəɫɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
- relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida
NOUN
- worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally
How To Use annelid In A Sentence
- Scientist Kristin Tessmar-Raible from Arendt's lab directly compared two types of hormone-secreting nerve cells of zebrafish, a vertebrate, and the annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii, and found some stunning similarities. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
- Most biologists are familiar with only a few of the approximately 40 extant animal phyla such as annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms and chordates.
- These differences in expression domains indicate changes in the regulation of these genes somewhere in the annelid lineage.
- The anteriorly situated, eversible ciliated pits (frontal organs) resemble nuchal organs of polychaete annelids.
- The body of an echiuran lacks annelid-type segmentation, but the distinctive free-swimming trochophore larval stages of echiurans and polychaetes are very similar.
- In that time, the first undoubted fossil annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, echinoderms, molluscs, onychophorans, poriferans, and priapulids show up in rocks all over the world.
- Besides being segmented, the body wall of annelids is characterized by being made up of both circular and longitudinal muscle fibers surrounded by a moist, acellular cuticle that is secreted by an epidermal epithelium.
- Make a classroom wall dictionary of all the new worm words your students are learning: annelid, fanworm, earthworm, flatworm, leech, lugworm, nematode, planarian, ribbonworm, spoonworm, tapeworm… to name several.
- Some information has been gathered on the expression of transcription factors associated with segmentation and regeneration in oligochaete annelids.
- Megascolides australis phylum Annelida is truly a giant among terrestrial invertebrates; according to this document lengths of adults average under 1 m. Archive 2006-01-01
